This is another take on this creature, bearing much differnece in comparison to two previous ones. I have completely abandoned the idea with two heads on each body end, for the time in which they noticed the presence of time-traveller was too long for that to be likely. I still however stick firmly to the concept of "Spider-hounds" that stalk the webs/angles of time in search of unwary travellers.

I like Hounds very much for there is so little we know of them, yet I have based this appearance striclty on the infromation takien from the story.

1. "Angles of Time", the environment they are said to live in. I picture it as a giant web-liek structure, in which hound acts like a giant spider. Instead of giving it spider like looks, however, I made it's body composed of angular structures, likely reminding the rest of their reality.2. "They have no bodies", The character wasn't sure whether the creatures are corporeal or not... I reflected that in their bodies turning in to smoke (That was later associated with their coming) here and there, making it somewhat etheral looking3. Smoke, Tongues, blue slime. - As mentioned before, the creatures were appearing with a lot of smoke, and mentioned to use their tongues to attack (Victim was found decapitated and blood-sucked). To reflect it I gave it a set of appendages sticking out of the head, some of fhich could be used like saw, and one being clearly sucker-like. I imagine these creatures kind of "melt" on contact points, thus the smoke and blue liquid/slime they are associated with. Finally I gave it eyes, too. If the liquid is blue, it's likely that colours and dyes are somewhat present in their world, and thus eyes are understandable.

I do not follow the classic dog-like appearance of these.. I am convinced that that name is a reference to their tracking abilities, rather then looks (they don't have anything to do with dogs anyway )

I wrote a lot but hey, there is more of my own vision here, than in other works so I'd like everyone to understand

"Beyond life there are'—his face grew ashen with terror—'things that I cannot distinguish. They move slowly through angles. They have no bodies, and they move slowly through outrageous angles.'"

"'All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment, I cannot be certain."

"'God, they are breaking through! They are breaking through! Smoke is pouring in from the corners of the wall. Their tongues—ahhh—"'

I think this is my favorite of your Lovecraftian drawings, mainly because you drew the Hounds of Tindalos not even close to "hound-like", giving them a far more alien appearance as befitting the nature of these eldritch things.

This one surely had much, much thought put into it, as opposed to being purely intuitive. I usually try to avoid a common, established interpretation (usually based on Chaosium version) which most of these creatures have.. this however is the case where ESPECIALLY any likness of earthly animal would be undesired. Thanks for those insightful comments.

Yes, true. I really dislike them depicted as literal dogs. I mean that's such a loss of potential. These things are probably the most alien beings of Cthulhu mythos. They do not only come from a different world, but an entirely different reality. Why would they look like earthly canine they have nothing to do with?

Also I don't agree with depicting their tonuges as pointed proboscis. It clearly kills in a different way. Cutting the head of and lack of blood does not suggest the blood was sucked from body, like by a mosquito, but rather that it was cleared from the scene by something like vacuum cleaner. At least to me.

A Hound that isn't actually shaped like some sort of deformed dog! We approve, mostmuch. The Hounds have always been one of the more maddening Lovecraftian creatures for me, in terms of the difficulty in trying to visualize them. Personally, I eventually settled on them being beings that are literally made of angles, and that (when transposed into our world) deform the space around and within them. They'd be visible not as anything material but as an angularization of the space around them, as though it were being viewed through a sheet of cracked glass. Your depiction of them, though, seems a lot closer to what Long imagined, to its benefit. Very, very nice.

Thank you. I am glad you gave similar views on the creature as I do. It really looses much of potential when portrayed as some kind of ghost dog. this design is one I am especially proud of due to amount of thought I gave to it before even drawing the first version

Besides, how's your Saturn Cat vs Hound of Tindalos going? I tthought while drawing this that better idea would be Hound of Tindalos vs Yithian. After all Ythians were great voyagers of time, and hounds lurk beyond it's boarders. This immediately made me think of analogous beliefs of medieval sailors, convinced that if one sails to far, his ship will fall of the ledge of the world into hell or be devoured by sea monsters. (Perhaps the belief brought by the minds that lived in ythian bodies for some time?). Anyway, I'm pretty sure, just as there were some brave sailors, like Christopher Columbus took the risk and plunged int othe unknown... Only that Yithian fears would be much more justified that could be interesting

Oooooh, indeed, the Yithians would make for a better adversary for the Hounds! Though the Yithians would probably manage to devise a way to hide from the Hounds - after all, they have so much info in their libraries, or maybe at least figure out some method to let them know beforehand if a Hound might come to visit them any time soon...

D'you think standing in the middle of a hula hoop at all times can protect you from the Hounds? You could totally wear it like this -> images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__c…

They certainly knew the means of protection from those. It was mentioned in ;Hounds of Tindalos" that humans once knew the way of protectingg from them - and then, that knowledge was lost. Yithians had the knowldedge from all times, so they probably know that too. I doubdt that they would liveso peacefully knowing that suddenly hound of tindalos might jump out of the corner But I'm also pretty sure that they didn't always had that knowledge. And even when they already knew some about the hounds, I am pretty sure there were some brave guys who tried to face the terror... ;>

Yep, i found it somewhere on the Internet but it's been so long that I don;t remember where . ;_;

Yeah, adn I bet they got their asses (cones?) kicked. Otherwise Houdns would have been somehow mentioned ( this was typical for Lovecraft andhis buddies to mention each other concepts, wasn;t it?). Even somewhat dimly. And Yithians have notorious tendency to neglect and never talk of the situations when they get pwned

this is looking amazing,and i liked the description, very well explained, i'll stuck with your version too, nothing in the Cthulhu Mythos is very terrestrial, therefore i don't think they look like dogs neither.

self criticism must always be big enough for you to always improve and try new things but not big enough to make you give up on drawing. it's good that it satisfied you, it is always good, i made an archer other day that really satisfied me,something that hasn't happened with my graphite drawings for a long time.